It Guidepoint Corporation

Intelligent ERP Planning

How We Develop an Intelligent ERP Plan (PDP) PROCESS - “A system cannot be improved or managed by anyone who does not understand the system. A leader must understand all parts and optimize the system as a whole (DEMING)“ We start the process section with meetings to both identify and visually document your most common business processes. Processes like Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, and Record to Report. We continue to work with you until you can visually see your end-to-end business processes with an eye towards efficiency improvement. DATA - After mapping business processes, we focus on the information that “FEEDS” your business system. This data is commonly referred to as “MASTER DATA”, and it must be accurate to realize the true business benefits(s) of your new ERP system. Lack of accurate master data is consistently listed as a top reason ERP implementations fail. PRODUCTIVITY - The final stage of the PDP is called PRODUCTIVITY. This is where we work with you to document the most important reports, dashboards, legacy interfaces, and forms needed for your new ERP system. Forms and interfaces are listed as the top reasons for ERP implementation failures. This includes the unbiased support of middleware and reporting tools such as Microsoft Power BI, SNOWFLAKE, Inc., Tableau Software, and Dell Boomi. We now have all the information necessary for qualified software vendors to demonstrate how their solution meets your specific business requirements. We facilitate the ERP vendor demonstrations and let them show us how their technology matches your business processes, using your master data and your reports.